Spannaz
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2011
- Messages
- 791
- Reaction score
- 1
- Your Mercedes
- Kia Sedona 08
Had my van in before Xmas at vauxhall, 2 year old Vivaro, 80k FVSH.
Poor starting, blue smoke, 3 cylinders no warning lights though and was fine when warmed up. To me it sounded like compression low, and with the blue smoke and smell of burning oil, possible piston ring, bore washed from faulty injector as these are known to go wrong.....
but oh no say Dealer.....WE know better. So just before Xmas, gets a call, ahh we need to get injectors ordered, so please collect van and we'll give you a call when in. Picks van up, manages about 6 miles BIG failure, warning lights and smoke.
But dealer still says oh no WE know better, we need to fit injectors......but we can't get them out. Well, not til new year.
So new year comes, injector come out, new ones go in.............guess what...........
gets a call, your van needs a new engine sir, it seems like it has a compression issues, possible piston or ring failure........hmmmmmmmmm is that not what i told you last year???
What's the next stage my office is taking......rather than listen to me when i said don't buy these heaps, buy something that WILL do 100k' they are now looking at part-exing it against a new one, because they can't wait 3 weeks for an engine!!!!
See........it's not just MB dealers that are all that bad, at least with a MB you are rewarded with an lovely drive when it does go well. Instead I got a 6 year old corsa lpg heap to drive around in!!!!!!! :neutral::neutral::neutral::neutral:
Poor starting, blue smoke, 3 cylinders no warning lights though and was fine when warmed up. To me it sounded like compression low, and with the blue smoke and smell of burning oil, possible piston ring, bore washed from faulty injector as these are known to go wrong.....
but oh no say Dealer.....WE know better. So just before Xmas, gets a call, ahh we need to get injectors ordered, so please collect van and we'll give you a call when in. Picks van up, manages about 6 miles BIG failure, warning lights and smoke.
But dealer still says oh no WE know better, we need to fit injectors......but we can't get them out. Well, not til new year.
So new year comes, injector come out, new ones go in.............guess what...........
gets a call, your van needs a new engine sir, it seems like it has a compression issues, possible piston or ring failure........hmmmmmmmmm is that not what i told you last year???
What's the next stage my office is taking......rather than listen to me when i said don't buy these heaps, buy something that WILL do 100k' they are now looking at part-exing it against a new one, because they can't wait 3 weeks for an engine!!!!
See........it's not just MB dealers that are all that bad, at least with a MB you are rewarded with an lovely drive when it does go well. Instead I got a 6 year old corsa lpg heap to drive around in!!!!!!! :neutral::neutral::neutral::neutral: